Letters to the editor

Published 7:00 pm, Monday, June 2, 2008

Does the editor get a chance to “edit” such opinions as Dr. Hotze’s before publication?

I would suggest, at least, to preface each of his sentences with “in my opinion.” Dr. Hotz must not have any gay friends, or at least it does not appear that he has run his opinions by them.

I am a gay person. Here’s my opinion. Being gay isn’t just about sex, any more than being straight is just about sex. It’s about who you are drawn to affectionally and emotionally. It’s about who you come home to and want to be with, and who you care for and want to grow old with. It’s about who you wash

the dog with and go to church with. There is some sex, but no more than straight people experience.

E.G. ”Bud” Peterson

Houston

One more time …

Dear Editor:

Ho Hum, Hotze is at it again. He has spent several months in these pages lecturing his followers about the evils of socialism, a truly dead issue and boring.

Then there were also attacks on the Texas Medical Board, an issue that matters only to him; so pretty boring to the general public. Now he has pricked up his ears and learned that same sex marriages are being approved.

Again, as he has done in the past, he calls homosexuality a willful lifestyle choice — no new thought there: just a tired old argument repudiated by all mainstream medical authorities. Boring. Homosexuality condemned by all societies?

The usual boring, simplistic old argument that ignores, for example, the Greeks who originated our democracy, teaching children that homosexuality is a preferential lifestyle? Boring and not a whit of truth. Homosexuals “recruit” people? Also boring and untrue. (I am surprised that he fails to mention the urban legend that gays get a toaster for each new recruit, and a flat screen TV for five.) Finally, he mentions that people should not be forced to work with homosexuals. Old, boring argument that is, in this case, spot on. Yes! he is right. Those people should just quit and find a new job.

Too bad that the good doctor can find no new, lively arguments on this issue that apparently he finds so fascinating.